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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 21ST JANUARY,

1899.

RETURN SHOWING THE NUMBER OF DEATHS REGISTERED DURING THE

BRITISH

AND

FOREIGN COMMUNITY.

CHINESE COMMUNITY.

VICTORIA DISTRICT.

DIVISION.

CAUSES.

Civil.

Army.

Navy.

I.-General Diseases.

A.-Specific Febrile

Diseases.

Zymotic.

Diphtheria,

Fever, Typhoid, (Enteric).......

Diarrhoea,

Dysentery,

Bubonic Fever, (Plague),

Malarial.

Fever, Intermittent,

Remittent,

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(Undefined),

Beri-Beri,

Venereal.

Syphilis,

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No. 1.

No. 2.

No. 3.

No. 4.

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B.-Diseases dependent on Specific External Agents.

Poisons.

Vegetable, Opium, (Suicide).

,, (Poisoning),

Effects of Injuries.

Burns,

Drowning,

Hanging. (Execution),

Hæmorrhage from Lung (old

wound of chest),.

Gangrene of leg (Traumatic), Rupture of Spleen....... Fracture and dislocation of

Spine,

Electric Shock,.

Errors of Diet.

Alcoholism, Acute,...

C.-Developmental

Diseases.

Immaturity at Birth,

Old Age,.

Marasmus,

Inanition,......

D.-Miscellaneous Diseases.

Malignaut New Growth of

Orbit,.

Cancer of Lower Jaw,

Scrofula,

Anæmia,

Lymphadenoma,

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II.-Local Diseases.

A-The Nervous System.

Meningitis,

A poplexy,

Paralysis,

Hemiplegia,

Infantile Convulsions,

Tetanus,

Trismus,

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Carried forward..........

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No. 7.

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No. 8.

No. 9.

No. 10.

Unknown.

Peak.

Harbour.

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